Conservatives are coming to terms with the growing approval of gay rights around the country by pretending that homophobia and hate crimes are nothing but a myth. This couldn't be any more clear at the Values Voter Summit this weekend, where, among other things, Matthew Shepard's murder was called a "complete fraud."

Kelly Sue DeConnick doesn't care about being liked. She doesn't care about making someone else uncomfortable. And she, for the most part, doesn't care about hurting feelings. She has to be tough as Captain Marvel, the heroine she writes, so her daughter and your daughter won't have to.

A Masshole who threatens a planetarium scientist to find out the secret of the universe and a woman who is intent on sleeping with the happily married motivational speaker Tony Robbins — these are just some of the characters in B.J. Novak's upcoming book, One More Thing​. And we're sorta jealous we didn't think of them first.

Halloween night in America is the one night in the country where you can't stop Americans from being what they want to be. In this, the year 2013, Americans have made their desire known to a company named Google that the people they most want to be are meth dealers, minions, and a former teenage star who possesses pop culture's most recognized tongue.

At a Marvel-dominated panel on LGBT characters and allies in comics at New York Comic Con, we couldn't help but talk about what that other major comic company was doing — and how an exec there said a gay marriage can't happen in its pages because heroes aren't supposed to be happy.

For a brief moment on Thursday afternoon at New York Comic Con, a group of women there to talk about women in comics talked about Wall Street. Specifically, that male-dominated financial industry was closing the gender gap better than what's going on in mainstream comics.

In a time when cell phones flipped, cargo shorts ruled, smartphones did not exist, and tablets were just pipe dreams you'd see on Star Trek, people mocked the man bag. Now, the once-ridiculed satchel is riding high as the murse business is a $9 billion industry.

On Thursday, New York Comic Con kicks into gear; 125,000 fans are expected to descend upon Manhattan's Javits Center. But what makes this different than its West Coast rival? Is there any difference at all? Ask anyone there and you'll find out that yes, yes there is.

On the heels of a Long Island middle school banning balls during recess, the state of Kentucky has announced that it's recommending that high schools get rid the post-game handshake, further proving that Americans are incapable of having fun.

In an earlier time, the term "bro" was actually used to refer to African-American men. Today, it's a term that refers to beer-chugging frat boys in Abercrombie cargo shorts. The good folks at Oxford explain how this happened.

It has been five or so months since the introduction of the cronut which means it's about time that the evil empire that is Starbucks to try and cash in by introducing a focus group-tested hybrid treat of its own. Enter the duffin™, the destroyer of worlds part donut, part muffin.

Only one of these things is available during the current government shutdown: a clinical treatment for stage four cancer or Congress's members-only gyms which includes the House member's swimming pool, basketball courts, sauna, steam room, and flat-screen television. Can you guess which one was deemed essential?

Over the weekend, gamers and game developers gathered at the IndieCade Festival in Los Angeles to talk about the state of independent video games. The speaker who caught our interest was Ben Prunty, a man who searches far and wide for sounds like light bulbs being struck to make your video game experience better.

Over the weekend,The New York Times Magazine published an illuminating read explaining the lack of women in the sciences. The question we could also be asking is what aren't we doing to keep women in the sciences. And that question could be answered by paid maternity leave.

A whopping 51 percent of Americans polled said that the main reason they don't pick up books is that they don't have enough time to read. That's a little hard to believe considering the average American spends nearly three hours per day watching television.

Susan Bennett, a woman living in suburban Atlanta, has come out and claimed what some consider to be the most frustrating and irritating voices on the planet: that is, she claims she is the voice of Apple's serial neg-artist Siri.

In three days, it will mark 15 years since police officer Reggie Fluty found Matthew Shepard tortured, and hung on a fence, and left to die. At a retelling of Shepard's story on Tuesday night at the Ole Miss, a group of the school's athletes decided to yell out "fag" and heckle the performers. After being punished, the athletes did not seem to "understand what they were apologizing for."